Thursday, July 17: Senate Meeting on 1000 PREVENTABLE deaths a day:patient safety

Subcommittee Hearing - More Than1,000 Preventable Deaths a Day Is Too Many: The Need to Improve Patient Safety

Date:

Thursday, July 17 2014, 10:00a ET, 9:00a CT, 7:00a PT

Place:

430 Dirksen Senate Office Building
to view via livestream on July 17 go to the link above with the meeting announcement or:
CSPAN 2 (U.S. Senate) on cable TV
check Senator Bernie Sanders website www.sanders.senate.gov
@SenSanders

Witnesses

Panel I

         John James, PhD , Founder, Patient Safety America, Houston, TX 


         Ashish Jha, MD, MPH , Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 


         Tejal Gandhi, MD, MPH , President, National Patient Safety Foundation; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 


         Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD , Senior Vice President for Patient Safety and Quality and Director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD 


         Joanne Disch, PhD, RN , Professor ad Honorem, University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis, MN 


         Lisa McGiffert , Director, Safe Patient Project, Consumers Union, Austin

Committee:

Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging

Democrats by Rank

         Bernard Sanders (I) (VT)

         Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)

         Kay R. Hagan (NC)

         Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)

         Tammy Baldwin (WI)

         Christopher S. Murphy (CT)

         Elizabeth Warren (MA)

                  Tom Harkin (IA) (ex officio)

Republicans by Rank

         Richard Burr (NC)

         Pat Roberts (KS)

         Lisa Murkowski (AK)

         Michael Enzi (WY)

         Mark Kirk (IL)

                  Lamar Alexander (TN) (ex officio)